"Why, Mr Idang Alibi, are you so concerned about the plight of Africans and that of the Black race that you keep writing about them every now and then and sometimes in series?" That is one of the responses I got from a faithful reader to our conversation in the past two weeks on the AU.
He went on to say something that suggests that he on his part has given up worrying about Africans and Blacks because they are a hopeless case, a lost cause. Why I am concerned, dear reader Yakubu Musa and many others who have a similar but unexpressed query for me, is that I am proud I have been created an African and a Black man. Besides, I keep hearing a voice tell me that I have been ordained as a prophet and a conscientiser unto the Black race. I feel personally diminished whenever and wherever a black skinned person is ill-treated, belittled, disgraced, denigrated, dehumanized in any way or wantonly killed, as so often happens in the USA,.
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